Organize with lists
Lists hold your backlog: the Inbox for undecided things, Someday for parked ideas, and your own lists for everything else.
On this page
The three kinds of list
- Inbox, everything captured without a decision. It's meant to be temporary.
- Your lists, Work, Home, Errands, whatever fits. Give each an icon.
- Someday, ideas you're not ready for. Parking something here is a legitimate outcome, not a failure.
Create a list
- 1Go to Lists and click New list.
- 2Pick an icon and type a name.
- 3Click Create.
Click a list's name to rename it. Its colour in the calendar is assigned automatically.
File tasks into lists
- While capturing, type
#work, it matches on the first few letters. - In a task, expand List and pick one.
- Use a list's own add row to create tasks directly there.
Put your lists in order
- 1On the Lists page, click Reorder in the header.
- 2Drag a list by its grip handle (the dotted square on the left) to slide it into place, or use the ↑ and ↓ buttons.
- 3Click Done when the order looks right.
Dragging works with a finger as well as a mouse, and the other lists shuffle aside as you move. Every change saves immediately, and the order follows you to your other devices. Inbox always sits at the top and Someday at the bottom, they're fixed on purpose, so your captured and parked items always live in the same place.
Collapse lists you're not using
Once you have a lot of lists, the page gets long. Click the small chevron beside any list's name to fold it away, the header stays visible with its count, and the tasks tuck out of sight.
- Collapse all / Expand all in the header folds or unfolds everything at once.
- Inbox and Someday collapse too.
- Kairo remembers which sections you folded, per account, on that device.
Delete a list
Hover a list and click the bin icon, then confirm. Its tasks are not deleted, they simply lose their list label. A task planned for Friday stays planned for Friday; an undated one shows up in your Inbox.